· Private foundation
The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k15 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON CITY MISSION | $75,000 |
| METONIA INC | $50,000 |
| MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER | $25,000 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL GAMING WOMEN | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI PRIDE INC | $10,000 |
| VICKSBURG WARREN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| MID-EAST AREA AGENCY ON AGING (MEALS ON WHEELS) | $10,000 |
| DISTINCTIVE SCHOOLS INC | $10,000 |
| FOODBANK OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA | $10,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| GRANT A GIFT AUTISM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| 100 BLACK MEN OF BATON ROUGE | $5,000 |
| UNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MIMETANOIA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +101%
- MSMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +70%
- CPCINCINNATI PRIDE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS (HARVEY RELIEF)one grant, 2017 · $50k
- PFPRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- NDNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ST LOUISone grant, 2017 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for all children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to…
The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop…
To provide nutritional support and enhance the quality of life of men, women, and children living with hiv/aids or cancer
Through year-round sports and training, individuals with intellectual disabilities are given the chance to gain confidence, seek opportunities to improve their physical fitness, demonstrate pride, and participate in their communities.
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
Goodwill industries of southern nevada provides education, employment, training and workforce development services that increase the likelihood clients will be placed into employment and to maximize clients' economic independence.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
The mission of mss, inc. is to support people with disabilities as vital and contributing members of the community. we envision a future where people are supported in living the life that they choose, rather than one chosen for them. we…
Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…
Icm provides various support services to individuals with developmental disabilities so they can remain in their community of choice with an enhanced quality of life.
To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.
Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds METANOIA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD HELPERS ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG-WARREN CO CHAMBER OF COM ↗
- Who funds Distinctive Schools of Illinois ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VMSN INC ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds PRIDE ST CHARLES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Grant A Gift Autism Foundation ↗
- Who funds Family and Youth Counseling Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds UNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA MIRACLE MINDS THERAPY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IDAHO ↗
- Who funds GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The Gap Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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